Email:  B.I.Pick@lse.ac.uk

Thesis Title: 'Geographical Indications and Development: What Matters? Empirical Evidence from France and Vietnam'

Supervisors: Dr Dev Gangjee and Dr Margot Salomon

Research Interests: : Intellectual property rights and their interface with development issues; Social justice; Public goods; Human development and human rights

Barbara graduated in law and political science from University Paris II-Assas and Sciences Po Paris (France). Prior to starting her PhD, she worked several years in the field of intellectual property and development, first as a legal and policy consultant for the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany (2005-2007) before joining the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy (2007-2012).

Barbara teaches Property I (LL 105) in the LLB Programme (2015).
 

Recent Publications:

Book:

Accès aux médicaments et contrefaçon pharmaceutique en Russie [Access to medicines and pharmaceutical counterfeiting in Russia], L’Harmattan Paris, 2006, 160 p

Book Chapters:

“The State of National Programmes, Training Needs and Legislation” (Co-author with McGuire, P. and Paroda, R.) in FAO, The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture, FAO: Rome, 2010, pp. 123 - 139 – Available here: http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1500e/i1500e00.htm

“Status by country of national legislation related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture” in FAO, The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture, FAO: Rome, 2010, pp. 219 - 239 – Available here: http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1500e/i1500e00.htm

Articles and Policy Papers

Le droit de la propriété industrielle en Russie post-soviétique et la lutte contre la contrefaçon, [Industrial property rights and the fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting in post-communist Russia], Revue d’Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Armand-Colin, 2006, 37 (2)

Le coût des brevets européens et l'enjeu de la ratification par la France du Protocole de Londres [The economics of the European patent system and the issue of France’s ratification of the London Protocol], Policy Paper n°32, Robert Schuman Foundation, June 2006 – Available here : http://www.robert-schuman.eu/question_europe.php?num=qe-32

La politique européenne de brevets [The European patent policy], Policy Paper n°8, Robert Schuman Foundation, Nov. 2005 – Available here : http://www.robert-schuman.eu/question_europe.php?num=qe-8